This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietn...

Community PlotJ.T. TakagiProducer: Takagi Productions1984, 20 min., Color, USThis satiric comedy takes place in a building on New York's multi-ethnic Lower East Side. Four neighbors form an uneasy alliance after a case worker from family court is accidentally killed in their b...

Echando RaicesJ.T. TakagiProducer: The American Friends Service Committee/Rachel Kamel/Third World Newsreel2002, 60 min., Color, USMade in collaboration with local community groups, this three part documentary looks at the lives and struggles of a range of immigrant and refugee communities. In the Central Valley of California, m...

While this tiny state on the divided Korean peninsula is continually demonized in the U.S., few have any first hand knowledge of the...

She Rhymes Like a GirlJ.T. TakagiProducer: Third World Newsreel2005, 7 min., Color, USToni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male dominated world of hip hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops. This music video/documentary hopes to promot...

Voices in the StreetJ.T. Takagi & Herman LewProducer: Third World Newsreel2005, 13 min., Color, USWhen the Republicans had their 2004 convention at Madison Square Garden, workers in the area from hotdog vendors to day laborers were directly affected. A short on the lives and thoughts of people wo...